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Show Wealthy Men Made Beggars. . DISPATCHES from all over the United States tell of savings of lifetimes cut in two between the upper and nether millstones of the copper cop-per warriors. According to a special to the Denver News there are 14,000 stockholders stock-holders of Amalgamated Copper, and the amounts lost, in the cities where the larger blocks of stock are held are estimated as follows: New York, $o0,-000,000; $o0,-000,000; Boston, $20,000,000; Chicago, .VS,-000,000; .VS,-000,000; Cincinnati. $1,000,000; . Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, $1,000,000; New Haven, $500,000; Springfield, Mass,, $500,000.. Amalgamated Copper dropped to 65 Monday, and then went up to 71. This is only a pulse beat in the great war for incredible fortunes, though it involved in-volved a gain of more than $9,000,000, and there is no gain In W"all street that is not somebody's loss. The stock went up because the Rothschild mines had agreed to limit the output of their Rio Tinto mine .nd be content with' the lion's share, nnd not the whole of the copper trade of Europe; the stock went up because a Pacific cable, is to be laid, and there will be a demand for 4,000,000 pounds of copper: the stock went up because a man with thepowef knew that rn-other rn-other man was short of it, and was so involved that a-rise where he look2d for a fall meant' ruin to him. and that is a chance that summons the wolves of Wall street unfailingly. Any or all of these explanations may or may not actually tell why the stock that in six months fell from-130 to 65 went up six points on MOndaV John D. Rockefeller has said that not himself, nor. his, son. por the Standard Oil company is interested in the war which was described as a battle between be-tween the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds. Roths-childs. But there are other Rockefellers. Rockefel-lers. On' the street they say the slaughter slaugh-ter of copper is the work of the Rogers group of Standard Oil operators, and that they are bent on forcing somebody some-body to unload a J great holding of the stock in order that they may absorb .it. I The estate of Marcus l3aly held 20Q,-I 20Q,-I 000, and there iHf'ontj' half a denial that this great mass of invested money is still intact. Is it the Daly estate on which this gigantic raid is being made? If it is, will it stand the assault or fall before it? |